Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 29, 2025

Businesses will need to ensure accurate data reporting across core operations such as sourcing, procurement, and transactions. Driver #3: Supply Chain Innovations The Supply Chain industry has been undergoing significant changes since 2020, prompting solution providers to adapt their products to navigate these challenging times.

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Jaggaer

JUNE 25, 2025

In earlier articles in this series on GenAI we have discussed its benefits and how it differs from other forms of artificial intelligence, as well as how in future these will converge to create highly sophisticated solutions, not least in procurement. Procurement, too, is vulnerable. Not the least of these are the cybersecurity risks.

Procurement Solutions

IT Supply Chain

JUNE 18, 2025

What Contractors Need to Streamline Procurement in 2025 By Ian Summers (pictured) Content Writer 111 Views You’re on-site before dawn, the framing crew’s ready, but the steel shipment’s stuck in limbo, the invoice isn’t approved, and your project management app just pinged you for the fourth time.

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 1, 2025

It is not just Procurement, Warehouse Management and Shipping. I worked in Materials Handling, Warehouse Management, Resource Planning, Industrial Engineering, I/T, Procurement, Manufacturing, Operations, Executive Leadership, Distribution, Freight Management, Reverse Logistics, Customer Experience and Order Management, and much more.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This resilience can be defined as “ the ability of a central procurement and supply management function to prepare for unexpected events, respond to disruptions, recover, and emerge even stronger. ” Manufacturers cannot foresee every risk, inconvenience, or disaster, but they can equip themselves to handle the unexpected and come out on top.

Manufacturing Procurement

My Office Apps

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Meals on Wheels San Francisco Transforms Supply Chain Management to Serve Up to 30,000 Meals Each Day with OpenEdge-Powered ERP by MyOffice Apps 2020 | Case Study Challenge Meals on Wheels America has 5,000 independent programs across the United States, with the program in San Francisco being one of the largest in the nation.

Case Study

Jaggaer

MAY 16, 2025

The World Procurement Awards celebrate excellence in procurement and represent the pinnacle of professional achievement. The awards spotlight the best practices and transformative strategies shaping the future of procurement. The whole team is thrilled that our work has been showcased in this way.

Manufacturing Procurement

RFgen

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The Semiconductor Industry: The global chip shortage of 2020-2021 provides a stark example of the bullwhip effect in action. Additionally, order accuracy improved by 15% as automated data capture minimized manual entry errors, ensuring that procurement and fulfillment processes were more precise and responsive.

Inventory Reduction

Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Headlines included upwards of $6 billion in accounting losses, reportedly the largest since 2020 at the height of the global pandemic. Financial Performance Highlights Yesterday the commercial and military aircraft provider formally reported Q3 financial after an earlier pre-release.

Negotiating Skills

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 16, 2025

There’s a growing sense that we may see a loosening of the regulatory environment — similar to the 2016-2020 period — which could offer carriers and logistics providers the chance to shift focus from compliance-heavy operations to strategic growth and efficiency.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 4, 2025

In 2020, TSMC announced an initial $12 billion investment in advanced fab capability to be located in Arizona. According to reporting from The Wall Street Journal , plans call for the construction of three chip fabs, two semiconductor chip packaging facilities along with a research and development center.

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) was signed in November of 2018 and went into effect on July 1, 2020. In 2019, one year after the imposition of steel and aluminum tariffs were lifted, the impacted countries came to added lateral agreements relative to regional trade agreements. With the U.S.

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 18, 2025

The companys founder, Donald Hicks, was the prior Co-Founder of supply chain analytics technology provider Llamasoft , which was later acquired by Coupa Software in 2020. In 2023, this provider secured $13 million in added financing, led by MK Capital , a venture capital firm.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 16, 2025

The Pandemic Most supply shortages these days have their roots in the pandemic of 2020. The experts at Window Cleaning People explain what is behind these windows supply chain shortages. Yes, the pandemic is mostly over now, although there are still hot spots popping up here and there.

Supply Chain

QAD

MAY 1, 2025

In todays complex and often volatile global environment, procurement leaders face mounting pressure to cut sourcing costs while navigating geopolitical instability, inflation, tariffs and talent shortages. When I started working with KION five years ago, they faced fragmented procurement processes across regions. His takeaway?

Sourcing Strategies

Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

trillion in 2021, which is an increase of 25% on 2020 and 13% higher compared to 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic struck. [1] 7] Modern PTAs do not only include tariff reductions, but they also regulate investment, intellectual property rights (IPRs), competition policy, and government procurement, to mention only a few. [8]

Resource Reduction

QAD

MAY 6, 2025

As a former buyer specialist turned Presales consultant for QAD, Ive seen firsthand how Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) solutions can transform procurement processes. This apprehension can hinder progress and prevent organizations from fully realizing the advantages that effective SRM solutions can bring to their procurement processes.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 6, 2025

In summary, this is an environment where the lessons and learning acquired during the Covid pandemic in 2020-2021 are put to a further test. Such an environment leads to added monitoring of inventory, working capital and technology investment needs. Are you adequately prepared? All rights reserved.

Supply and Demand

Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 3, 2025

Ever since the events of 2020 , availability of AMD chips has struggled to meet demand. This first hurdle can, in itself, be a difficult one to negotiate in the games sector. Chip shortages increase costs and incur delays Speaking of traditional consoles, both the Sony PlayStation 5 and Microsoft’s Xbox use chips from a single supplier, AMD.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 26, 2025

History Provides Important Insights Industry supply chain, direct material procurement executives and team members should remind themselves as to the when, how and why direct materials sourcing strategies shifted toward global wide sourcing of components, intermediate or end-production of products so many years ago.

Sourcing Strategies

Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Headlines included upwards of a $6 billion loss for the quarter, reportedly the largest since 2020 at the height of the global pandemic. The commercial and military aircraft provider formally reported Q3 financial after an earlier pre-release.

Supply Chain Design

Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 29, 2025

billion for all of 2024 which is equivalent to the year 2020 when Boeing was managing the industry demand and supply impacts of both the Covid-19 pandemic and two fatal crashes involving Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. The company indicated that its cash burn rate amounted to $3.5 billion in the quarter. 2024 Full Year Performance The U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 25, 2025

Although solar energy accounted for 22% of the EU’s electricity generation last month, the share of residential rooftop installations is projected to fall sharply—from around 30% between 2020 and 2023 to just 15% in 2025. GW Stargate project—impacting utility planning, construction procurement, and energy infrastructure. supply chains.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 16, 2025

In the manufacturing sector, we will see it come into the front by the end of 2020 completely. Charles Quail CLO, Belair Posted on: Jan, 20 2020 The truth from the road is that rates were so good, that 2018 was the best year we had since 1997. So we claim it was not the high cost structure, it was the greed. per sqft per month? $40+

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 29, 2025

In the manufacturing sector, we will see it come into the front by the end of 2020 completely. Charles Quail CLO, Belair Posted on: Jan, 20 2020 The truth from the road is that rates were so good, that 2018 was the best year we had since 1997. So we claim it was not the high cost structure, it was the greed. per sqft per month? $40+

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 26, 2025

Companies that took 2020 seriously and invested in their data are now leading their industries in AI. Their CEOs agreed, and technology leaders began channeling new resources into the data foundations necessary not only for supply chain analytics, but for the artificial intelligence surge now upon us.

Vendor Strategies

Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 2, 2025

Prediction Implications The basis of our 2025 prediction is that Chief Supply Chain Officer s or Chief Procurement Officers efforts directed at short and longer term component and production sourcing strategy setting will be all consuming, depending on specific industry. billion in funds.

Sourcing Strategies

Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2025

It was the largest stock market decline since March 2020, the equivalent of the peak of the global pandemic. Global Market Response The initial response from yesterdays U.S. equity markets was the steepest declines, reportedly upwards of $3.1 trillion in market value.

Sourcing Strategies

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 24, 2025

However, the June score is still well below the 105 level in February 2020 right before the COVID crisis. In the manufacturing sector, we will see it come into the front by the end of 2020 completely. Tom Miralia CEO, Distribution Technology Posted on: Feb, 26 2020 Multistory Bronx DC $700 million and 1.2 versus 2024.

Supply Chain Design Software

Arena Solutions

DECEMBER 17, 2024

So this was the very end of ’19, beginning of 2020, and then by the way, something else happened in 2020 that really changed a lot of things. Chad Wright Yeah, that’s a great way to look at it. I think it was a little bit of both, because we were building completely from scratch.

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

In the manufacturing sector, we will see it come into the front by the end of 2020 completely. Charles Quail CLO, Belair Posted on: Jan, 20 2020 The truth from the road is that rates were so good, that 2018 was the best year we had since 1997. So we claim it was not the high cost structure, it was the greed. per sqft per month? $40+

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

In the manufacturing sector, we will see it come into the front by the end of 2020 completely. Charles Quail CLO, Belair Posted on: Jan, 20 2020 The truth from the road is that rates were so good, that 2018 was the best year we had since 1997. So we claim it was not the high cost structure, it was the greed. per sqft per month? $40+

Gartner

Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 29, 2024

During the 2020 U.S. In the 2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Scott Walker was defeated as Governor by candidate Tony Evers. The Foxconn promises of the large scale manufacturing complex was a reported campaign issue. Presidential election, Joe Biden carried the state of Wisconsin by a narrow margin over Donald Trump.

Mexico

Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 27, 2025

Industry supply chains experienced and exercised rather high levels of safety stock planning after the initial impacts of the global wide Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 when supply and demand levels were simultaneously severely impacted.

Expense Reduction

Supply Chain Matters

MAY 6, 2025

We observed that the overall April data not only points to a state of global wide contraction in production and procurement activity but qualitative indicators of cutbacks in new or export order levels not seen since the initial time of the global pandemic in 2020.

Los Angeles

Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 6, 2025

Such dependence became abundantly clear during the heights of the global wide pandemic during 2020, when timely supplies of needed drugs were severely impacted, requiring Presidential emergency actions among multiple nations to expedite needed supplies.

Pharmaceutical

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 3, 2025

In the manufacturing sector, we will see it come into the front by the end of 2020 completely. Charles Quail CLO, Belair Posted on: Jan, 20 2020 The truth from the road is that rates were so good, that 2018 was the best year we had since 1997. So we claim it was not the high cost structure, it was the greed. per sqft per month? $40+

Supply Chain Design Software